The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-01-09
A DAY IN SOCIETY.
A Leaf From the Journal Of a
Debutante.
A MAID OF LOFTY PEDIGREE
Twenty-eight Bellies at a Lunch Mr.
Upright Starch-The Mash She
Made.

Miss Beatrice Lattenhouse Soanso the
acknowledged belle and leader OF the
debutantes in society for the season Of
1885 and 1887, was awakened yesterday
morning by the tapping on her bedroom
door OF her French maid. Miss Beatrice
opened her Dig brown eyes in the soft
rosy light that came through the pink
silk curtains at the windows, and al
lowed a most perceptible frown to
darken her pretty face, for had she not
been disturbed whilst enjoying the
delights of a dreamland ball which for
splendor and magnifcence far outdid
the Assemblies?
However, remembering that she had
a very busy day before her, and that,
pleasant as another doing would have
been, she could not we'll afford to
squander sixty precious minutes. Miss
Beatrice jumped up forthwith and half
an hour later, thanks to the assistance
of her maid, she was seated at the
breakfast table with her elder sister and
her mother, eagerly opening some half
dozen attractiVe-looking notes that she
had found beside her plate.
AMAID OF LOFTY PEDIGREE.
The Soansos, of which family Miss
Beatrice was so fair daughter, have
long occupied the unassailable position
of great swells in Philadelphia society
OF all the branches of the multitudinous
Soanso family "a writer in the Pevue des
DeuT MOndeS said: philadelphia society
is made up of three parts-up town
people, downtown people and Soansos)
the branch of which Miss Beatrice was a
bud was the very topmost of the Soanso
tree. Her mother had been the famous
tree. Her. mother had been the famous
beauty, Miss Betsy Rittenhouse, and
now lived, as she had since Mr. Soanso's
death, in the old NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
which stands on one side of the square
which bore the name of her ancestors.
Miss Beatrice mad been most carefully
reared, and was as attractivea specimen
OF the best type OF Philadelphia femin-
unity as had been launched upon the
waves OF fashion for many a season. |
From the time she was old enough to
travel she had spent her summers |
from that tree of learning which |
bIoomed so luxuriously in the aristo-
cratic conservatory of Miss Merwin's !
school for young ladies. Therefore, now
that the time had come for her to be |
presented to society, she was entirely |
competent to step forward and make |
her curtSey in manner becoming a |
SOansO.
Three of the notes which Miss Beatrice
opened contained cards for afternoon
teas; one was an invitation to a lunch
con, one requested the honor of her
at a wedding and subsequent
and two were of a personal
nature.
From the breakfast-room Miss
Beatrice went to the library, where she
to put down the dates and
hours Of the tea" cards in her engage
ment book, did the same for the lunch
con and wedding invitations and wrote
an acceptance to the former, which she
sealed with beautiful dab of dard-red
wax and rang for pumpkins, the
colored footman, TO post. These highly
matters being disposed OF, +
she dressed to go out, and, in company
with her elder sister. who had dawnei
upon the social horizon for years previ-
OuSly anu IS now engaged 10 Mr.. Won
Harlem, of Nyack-on the
she was driven in her mothers
brougham 10 the dressmaking estab-
lishment OF Miss Wigginson, where for
an hour she poised as a model ON which
sundry fascinating garments were
fitted. Thence she drove to the MILL
merry parlor of the famed Miss Baloney,
where she scolded because a bonnet had
not been sent home in time, and
confidence with a sister bud,
who was there with her mother, on the
subject of an old lady who was buying a
bonnet far too gay for her, and whom
The young ladies agreed on pronouncing
a perfect fright"
ONE OF TwENTY-EIGHT BELLIES AT
LUNCH.
Miss Baloney having explained to her
OWN complete satisfaction the delay in
sending home the bonnet, Miss Beatrice
ook leave Of her sister and was driven
% the Biddlesmith mansion, on Spruce
Street, where she lunched with twenty
eight young ladies, who had been :
brought together to meet Miss Measure
we'll, OF Newark, the BiddIesmith =